This work is an acousmatic single sound source work for water, which explores the transformation and trajectory of water. Using a single sound source creates a strong relationship between the sounds. Contrast is achieved by using both natural and sourced water sounds. By using these two types of water categories enables interesting textures to be created. Natural water sounds come from natural water sources created by nature including; fountains, fish movements, outside rain and dripping. Sourced sounds comes from water that has been tamed and domesticated by humans including; marinas, locks, docks, ponds, bathroom noises, garden fountains, fish tanks and rain on different manmade surfaces. This work experimented with Denis Smalley’s concept of ‘causality’ in a variety of ways, including cause and effect. Smalley’s concept allows the work to experiment with gesture as a formative element. There are moments of buildups, climaxes, attacks, releases, which create intensity and depth. This aids and helps the work transition into different sound worlds and spaces. 

Locks, Docks And Liquid Hydrogen (2013)

When I ran away with the circus (for the second time) I made a load of songs for a show, some you have heard before but here are the finished versions for your aural pleasure x

Glastonbury, oh wondrous place of very well organised entertainment and pleasure. Wow wee, what a time I spent.

I sailed in on my orion boat as easy as cutting through cloth. I had enough supplies to last a week with Gin and Guinness a plenty. I built a small cosy nest lined with lilies and leopards lit with circles and squares and cosied up next to my fellow crew members awaiting the arrival of the rest.

As yet incomplete, the festival continued to grow around me, clothing itself with layer upon layer of increasingly sultry, intriguing, strange and wondrous outfits until finally, she threw her proverbial legs open for all (with fully functioning tickets) to enter at will.

Devoured by the grandeur, I wandered soaking in the splendour but never jumping into far…for I had a job to do.

And oh dear, the spectacularity that is our show was fraught with disaster. A dress rehearsal just too short to ensure safety, last minute changes, a sick performer…will they perform or won’t they? Will the gut wrenching, heart busting last two months of furious work & reharsals, forsaking all others, have been worth it?

“To the healing fields, fair maiden…”

And all was well. The show received a standing ovation from one corner on one day and played out to thousand of excited eyes throughout the whole sun-shiney weekend. A job well done, with footage still to come.

Playtime

Day Ten

A simple track with a breathing accordion. I am still a newby to this instrument so this movement is yet to feel like an organic creature. Whilst playing this sound however, i really feel like the accordion has life, it vibrates my chest as i work its bellows.

Remembering someone long gone. Someone who often flits in and out of my mind but with much less gusto than tonight. This is a tiny bundle of those memories. 
To those we've lost, may they forever be in my lovely flowery dress.
x

Day Ten - Lost In Dovestones

From Perihelion to Aphelion is a miniature stereo acousmatic etude, which explores the concept of space, both sonically and theoretically. This work takes the listener through a sonic space journey, where the listener experiences sounds produced by three different planet's atmospheres in our solar system; Uranus, Earth and Saturn. Each of the planets atmospheres forms their own section, which represents a different destination on the musical space journey.

From Perihelion to Aphelion begins with the high pitch gestural harmonic atmosphere of Uranus. Before traveling to the windy atmospheric atmosphere of Earth, which reveals small glimpses of the familiar, through field recordings of Earth’s environmental sounds including birds and traffic. The work concludes with atmospheric bass noises that develop the character of Saturn.

The initial concept of creating a space journey was inspired by a number of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sound recordings, as each recording has their own personal history, story, voice, life and energy. In particular NASA Voyager Space Sounds CD (2009) was an important influential tool, as each track provided a true insight into the sounds heard in space, which NASA recorded on their space voyages. In particular three tracks were significant to From Perihelion to Aphelion, including Rings of Uranus, Voice of Earth and Saturn's Rings, as they shone light on the different planets atmospheric characters.

From Perihelion To Aphelion

Made Up

A song written for my sister and her baby boy long gone and far away in New Zeland. Personal, simple and beautiful.

ROck A Bye Baby Samuel

One heat sink and two bass drives, recorded with four microphones in an IBC (a big plastic box). This is a shortened, stereo version of the original which was composed in 5.1 surround-sound format by Stephen Summers (that's me). This piece is just one of a series based on recordings of heat sinks and electro motors in various situations. 
Here, the spectral content of the metallic sounds and the spatial effects of the reverberation chamber (the IBC) are enhanced by the slowed playback, although the four-microphone effects are mostly lost in this stereo mix.

The recording of a heat sink being struck by a flail- attached to the blade of a rotating fan- is slowed down to 50%, 25% and 12.5%, reversed and filtered. 

Dissipators
Heat sinks and fans with flails are the core elements in the Noisy Toys workshop kits, which contain only upcycled junk from discarded electronic goods. I have run this workshop in countless schools and STEM events over the country for several years and have often been surprised at the interesting musical patterns that emerge from this simple system as people move the objects around. OK so I suppose I got a bit obsessed with fans and heat sinks and the patterns that emerge at the edge of chaos when the objects are placed at just the right position.

Space
Two microphones are placed in the ears of Benito's head- these are directly connected to the front stereo pair of speakers- and two are in the top rear corners of the IBC- which connect to the back stereo pair. In this stereo mix much of the spatial effect is lost of course.

Bass
The bass frequencies produced by the bass drives are very low and may not be audible at all on some systems- for example playback through a laptop or pad. Use some decent speakers.
The bass drives are computer hard drives used as electromagnetic signal generators- the audio signal being taken from the power connections. 
One of the bass drives is manually spun, the other is motor controlled and can play specific pitches. Some of the bass sounds were played back at X2 and X4 speed through a monitor in the IBC and then re-recorded and slowed back to original speed to add natural reverberation.

Eternal Cosmic Heat Dissipation

‎"impeccably icy and avant-garde, built around Glass-esque piano and chilling samples of whinnying horses." - Manhattanchester.blogspot.com

Inspired by Gloomy Sunday.

Image from www.shinybinary.com

Never



All of the proceeds from the sale of this track are being donated towards funding a final release of the last tracks Sine & Fibre produced before the tragic death of James Richard Brown AKA “DJ Sine”. The release will be a tribute to the music and life of James featuring artwork and words from some of his close friends.

Download at: sinefibre.bandcamp.com

Info:
On Febuary 17th 2008 James Richard Brown AKA “DJ Sine” passed away after contracting malaria whilst visiting the West African country of Guinea with the drumming group Tanante. James was a hugely talented technician, DJ, musician and founding member of the Stumblefunk Sound System, Drum Music (www.drummusic.org) and Tanante (www.drumroots.org.uk/).
Enjoy the download and spread the love!

Wonderland

Our first outing this year comes from Born On Road's top Junglist Aries and our long standing good friend David Boomah.

Taking the classic 'Aint No Sunshine' and re-flipping it in a Jungle Style!

Keeping it simple is the order of the day with this one.

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ARIES & DAVID BOOMAH - AIN'T NO SUNSHINE (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Vieka Plays (:vee-e-ka p-l-aa-ys). Born, will die. A female singer-songwriter-electronic-fiddler-producer-engineer currently residing in the fair lands of Manchesterville, UK. Inspired and nourished by music and sound.

 Vieka plays her music full frontal, sometimes delicate, sometimes brash but always dedicated to the senses. Alikened to Björk, Portishead with a dash of Cocorosie, Vieka moves through you in a whirl of challenging stories and sounds created by all manors of electronic geekery that can be harnessed, beated and whipped into shape. 

...'Combining sonic brutality, unfettered on-stage physicality, never-quite-reassuring periods of calm and moments of breath-taking spectral beauty'...'Ostensibly an avant-garde musician in the Portishead/Björk mould mould, Vieka’s beguiling live performances set her apart from other experimentalists.'
 … 'Their live concerts can veer from dubstep mood-pieces to eerie swing narratives and sexual psycho-dramas all with an underlying Burial-style-soundtrack-David Lynch intensity'... 

With a lustful desire for the wild world, Vieka weaves through all manner of sounds; blending, warping and creating impassioned soundscapes with subtle sound recordings from nature, life and the wide-wide world. Obtuse creations of synthesised bass, glitch noise and samples come from deep within the digital spectrum while the vocals cut through unabashed.

'With a tongue stuffed thoroughly in her cheek she blissfully hovers her sound in the darker sides of life (or hoovers her music up from the filthy corner of the proverbial room).'

Never

Vieka

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